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Fury mounts over ‘false’ claims against UN rapporteur

  • After a circulated truncated clip, France 24 and Reuters verified Francesca Albanese did not call Israel the `common enemy of humanity` during her February 2026 Doha Forum address.
  • Since taking the mandate in 2023, her October 2024 report `Genocide as Colonial Erasure` argued there were reasonable grounds to suspect genocide, and her 2025 Human Rights Council report traced an economy of genocide implicating Western governments.
  • Event transcripts show she identified the `common enemy` as systems—`financial capital`, `algorithms` and `weapons`—not a state, Albanese clarified publicly.
  • Legal pressure in Paris escalated when Jurdi filed a crime report accusing Jean-Noël Barrot, French foreign minister, of spreading false information, while Amnesty International demanded European states retract accusations and the UN human rights office defended rapporteurs amid rising misinformation.
  • Analysts and Reuters observed that over 100 cultural figures and a coalition of 116 human-rights organisations defended Albanese, while the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation warned fabricated claims could undermine credibility.
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juancole.com broke the news in on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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